Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call a man a sneak or a cheat is not pleasant; to be so called, with reason, is still worse...
...sport's sake, and so on; few seem to realize that this opportunity lies in the minor sports. In these the physique which is developed to its full capacity is not necessary for participation and enjoyment. One who has the much-talked-about average ability can find here a pleasant way of gaining exercise and companionship. Although the desire for these is apparently not very great, probably many who do not now take part in any minor sport, would do so if it were not for the negative--even unfavorable--position occupied by these sports. If a supposedly representative body...
...intellectual, and to provide means of physical and social well-being far in advance of anything we have yet attained"--such statements should cheer considerably those who bewail our method in general. We have much to learn, but perhaps our foundations are firmer than many believe. It is pleasant, indeed, to think that while we can polish off our education by borrowing from England, we can give her much in return...
...even to CRIMSON editors. This manifestation of Yuletide good feeling is indeed touching; it has even tempted us to rhapsodize after the manner of our more light footed editorial contemporary--on the emotions which arise in us upon reading this simple and unaffected expression of kindness. It is a pleasant world, after all, we exclaim. What are the little grievances which weigh upon us at times; the trifling annoyances of life which would seem to be the workings of a divine, but not to us benevolent Providence--what are they compared to the sweet joy of fellowship, the kindly acts...
When that specialization, which is one of the myriad results of industrialism, has so taken hold of the world that no one can be sure of recognition unless he produce in a certain field, it is more than pleasant to find one who defles the behest of the moment. Of the many younger poets now publishing almost all calim appreciation as specialists as poets of certain things or times or places. There is the poet of industrialism; the poet of the West; the poet of the Yukon; the poet of the Umpty-third regiment; the poet of Windy Peaches...